Michael Kwan
January 2nd, 2008, 07:45 PM
Hi,
I got married a few months ago and hired a professional to videotape (HD) my wedding. I've been a video enthusiast in SD video for a long time so I thought I should be able to handle the editing myself.
He captured the files in HDV and I asked him to simply give me the tapes so I can borrow an HDV camcorder to capture it myself into my PC and edit it myself (to save cost). I borrowed a HDV camcorder but it couldn't read the tapes, so I had to give the tapes back to the videographer and pay him to capture them for me.
Now I got my portable harddrive back but I can't read the files. (I'm using a PC) They're in MOV format, but I just can't open them no matter how I try. He captured them using FCP; I did some research and found that MAC and PC don't seem to have an interchangeable HD video format, so now I'm stuck.
A few questions, hopefully somebody can give some advice:
1. He captured the files into a HDD for me into separate folders, but I realize that each tape is only a few GB in size, range from 3GB to 8GB. I thought each tape should hold up to 13 GB in size. Why is the file size so small? Is it because when FCP captures it it compress it into a different format? He said that he captured it lossless.
2. Is there any other way I can solve the problem without having him re-capture the tapes all over again or having him to do the conversion? Because if then I'll have to pay him again.
3. Based on a sample file (see below), does the file look compressed or is it still in its original format?
Thank you so much.
Note: I can use quicktime to open the file but there's no picture, just audio. The Movie Info shows the following:
Format: HDV 720p24, 1280x720(1248x702), Millions
16-bit Integer (Big Endian), Left, 48.000 kHz
16-bit Integer (Big Endian), Right, 48.000 kHz
Movie FPS: 23.98
Data Size: 36.25 MB
Data Rate: 2.39 MB
Duration: 00:00:15:04
Normal Size: 1248x702 pixels
Current Size: 1248x702 pixels
I got married a few months ago and hired a professional to videotape (HD) my wedding. I've been a video enthusiast in SD video for a long time so I thought I should be able to handle the editing myself.
He captured the files in HDV and I asked him to simply give me the tapes so I can borrow an HDV camcorder to capture it myself into my PC and edit it myself (to save cost). I borrowed a HDV camcorder but it couldn't read the tapes, so I had to give the tapes back to the videographer and pay him to capture them for me.
Now I got my portable harddrive back but I can't read the files. (I'm using a PC) They're in MOV format, but I just can't open them no matter how I try. He captured them using FCP; I did some research and found that MAC and PC don't seem to have an interchangeable HD video format, so now I'm stuck.
A few questions, hopefully somebody can give some advice:
1. He captured the files into a HDD for me into separate folders, but I realize that each tape is only a few GB in size, range from 3GB to 8GB. I thought each tape should hold up to 13 GB in size. Why is the file size so small? Is it because when FCP captures it it compress it into a different format? He said that he captured it lossless.
2. Is there any other way I can solve the problem without having him re-capture the tapes all over again or having him to do the conversion? Because if then I'll have to pay him again.
3. Based on a sample file (see below), does the file look compressed or is it still in its original format?
Thank you so much.
Note: I can use quicktime to open the file but there's no picture, just audio. The Movie Info shows the following:
Format: HDV 720p24, 1280x720(1248x702), Millions
16-bit Integer (Big Endian), Left, 48.000 kHz
16-bit Integer (Big Endian), Right, 48.000 kHz
Movie FPS: 23.98
Data Size: 36.25 MB
Data Rate: 2.39 MB
Duration: 00:00:15:04
Normal Size: 1248x702 pixels
Current Size: 1248x702 pixels